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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 42 AND 43
OF THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF 1915 OF THE-
CITY OF FORT WORTH, ARTICLE 7, CHAPTER 5
OF TITLE 7, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF
A PERMIT TO ERECT POSTS; POLES AND TONERS
BY CERTAIN COMPANIES ON STREETS, ALLEYS
AND THOROUGHFARES AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES,
PROVIDING FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PLANS AND
SPECIFICATIONS TO THE CITY ELECTRICIAN AND ,
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF
THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION I.
That Sections 42 and 43 of the Revised Ordinances
of 1915 of the City of Fort orth, Article 7, Chapter
4 of Title 7, be and the same are hereby amended to
hereafter read as follows:
That hereafter no posts, poles or towers built
or erected for the purpose of bearing wires or upon
which wires are placed or are to be placed, used in
connection with any telegraph, electric light, telephone,
street railway, radio or like purpose, shall be erected,
placed, kept or maintained upon any street, alley, thorough-
fare or any other public place within the corporate limits
of the City of Fort Worth unless a written permit shall
have first been obtained from the City Electrician of
the City of Fort Worth, to erect or build such posts, poles
or towers.
SECTION II.
Any person, firm or corporation who desires to bttild
or erect poles, posts or towers shall submit to the City
Electrician of the City of Fort Worth plans and specifi-
cations showing the proposed improvements. It shall be the
duty of the City Electrician when such plans and specifica-
tions have been submitted to him, to make an inspection of
the proposed improvements and if in his discretion the pub-
lic good and welfare will be promoted he shall issue a permit
to the person, firm or corporation making the application.
An inspection fee of 50¢ for each pole, post or tower to be
built or erected shall be paid by the applicant before such
permit is issued.
SECTION III.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall build or erect
any such poles, posts or towers as described in Sections I and
II hereof, without having first obtained the permit provided
for herein or who shall keep or maintain any such posts, poles
or towers which shall have been erected or built without a
permit having been first obtained therefor, shall upon convic-
tion be fined any sum not to exceed $200.00 and each day that
such post, pole or tower shall be kept and maintained when the
same shall have been erected without a permit having first been
obtained shall be deemed a separate offense and punished as such.
SECTION IV.
The holding or adjudication of any section, portion or
part hereof or of any paragraph, sentence or phrase hereof to
be invalid shall not affect the validity of any other section,
portion or part hereof or any paragraph, sentence or phrase
hereof, but all such other sections, portions and parts hereof
and paragraphs, sentences and phrases hereof, shall remain valid.
SECTION V.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after the date of its passage and publication as required by law.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Attorney.
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